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- With an emphasis on using examples from languages and cultures around the world, chapters address topics including social and regional dialects, multilingualism, discourse and pragmatics, variation, language in education, and language policy and planning.
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Jun 5, 2012 · We can define sociolinguistics as the study of language in relation to society, and this is how we shall be taking the term in this book. Sociolinguistics has become a recognised part of most courses at university level on ‘linguistics’ or ‘language’, and is indeed one of the main growth points in the study of language, from the point ...
- 1 - Introduction: Sociolinguistic theory and the practice of ...
As language users, we are all theorists, although the...
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Sociolinguistics examines the relationship between language...
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Sep 8, 2024 · What is Sociolinguistics? Sociolinguistics is the study of the connection between language and society, and the way people use language in social situations. It asks the question, "How does language affect the social nature of human beings, and how does social interaction shape language?"
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Sep 29, 2017 · Van Herk guides the reader on a tour through the major issues that define the field, including region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, at the same time exploring...
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Explores the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education; Provides useful and clear learning features including numerous innovative exercises and...
Oct 24, 2014 · Taking account of new research from the field, the book explores exciting new perspectives drawn from linguistic anthropology, and includes new chapters on pragmatics, discourse analysis, and...
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Jun 5, 2016 · As language users, we are all theorists, although the discipline of sociolinguistics has particular responsibilities in fostering, through its theory, awareness of what happens at the interface between language and society, and in reviewing what we know and what we have not yet adequately explained.
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Sep 7, 2010 · Sociolinguistics examines the relationship between language use and the social world, particularly how language operates within and creates social structures.
